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Egyptian Revolution is heating up! Tunisia part 2?

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TraceOneInfinite:
Mubarak is now under intense pressure.  They tried to institute a curfew and zero tolerance against any protesters, and it only emboldened the protesters more, as today hundreds of thousands are protesting and setting fire to government offices!   Mubarak immediately called a press confrence and said he is dismantling the cabinet, but that he's staying in power.  So expect the protests to continue.


For those that didn't follow what happened in Tunisia the last couple months; basically a man with a college degree couldn't find a job because of the high unemployment in the country, so he started selling fruit on the streets as a street vendor.  He was arrested for allegedly not having sufficient permits to sell fruit and his fruit and what little money he had was confiscated.  The man got so pissed off that he poured gasoline on himself and set himself on fire.  After he died in the hospital the country went into an uproar over the governments heavy hand in the country, and it's censoring of the internet, facebook, twitter, etc... the protests became so strong that the president had to exile to Saudi Arabia and agree to remove himself from politics.

...now similar movements are taking place in Jordan, Algeria and especially Egypt. 

Fraxxx:
It's all about if the military still got his back. Plus there's no way the western countries wanna see him go cause they're scared of the Muslim Brotherhood winning a real democratic election.

TraceOneInfinite:

--- Quote from: Fraxxx on January 28, 2011, 03:23:40 PM ---It's all about if the military still got his back. Plus there's no way the western countries wanna see him go cause they're scared of the Muslim Brotherhood winning a real democratic election.

--- End quote ---

Dude.. the Military rode through Cairo and they were supposed to stop the protests, but instead the protesters were jumpin up on top of the tanks and people were cheering and the military didn't stop them!  This was after Egypts government had just set a no tolerance stance against protesters!

OG Hack Wilson:
this will happen in America when Obama gets re-elected after making more stupid promises that he can't keep

Fraxxx:

--- Quote from: Infinite- African West Coastin' 2010 on January 28, 2011, 03:33:19 PM ---
--- Quote from: Fraxxx on January 28, 2011, 03:23:40 PM ---It's all about if the military still got his back. Plus there's no way the western countries wanna see him go cause they're scared of the Muslim Brotherhood winning a real democratic election.

--- End quote ---

Dude.. the Military rode through Cairo and they were supposed to stop the protests, but instead the protesters were jumpin up on top of the tanks and people were cheering and the military didn't stop them!  This was after Egypts government had just set a no tolerance stance against protesters!

--- End quote ---

Exactly. If the military isn't backing him up anymore what's Mubarak gonna do?

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